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Lost Time
Lost Time
Series · 4 books · 2015-2019
By
Damien Boyes
Books in series
#1
Second Skyn
2015
The first book of the stunning sci-fi series Lost Time—Blade Runner meets Memento in a mind-bending action blockbuster that'll keep you guessing all the way to the end. They say you never forget the first time you die. Finsbury Gage remembers, sees it every time he closes his eyes. He and his wife, smeared across the highway by a malfunctioning bit-head driving a stolen urban assault vehicle. He hung together long enough for the Second Skyn recovery team to rescue his fading thoughts from his ruined body—his wife wasn't so lucky. Now, with his salvaged mind uploaded to a custom bioSkyn replacement body, Fin's thrust into a dangerous underworld of plastic minds and enhanced bodies, driven by the haunting, split-second memory of his killer's face. He'll do whatever it takes to find the man who stole his future, but when vengeance lives forever, just how far will he go to find justice for the woman he loves? Second Skyn is the first book in the Lost Time series, a sci-fi noir in the spirit of Blade Runner, Altered Carbon, and Neuromancer. If you love your sci-fi relentless and armed with twists, this is what you've been looking for.
#2
Neuroshyft
2015
To find out who he is, he must discover who he became. Finsbury Gage will do anything to find the man who murdered his wife. He'll withhold information from his superiors in the Psychorithm Crime Unit. He'll cut corners. He'll steal evidence. He'll even augment his prosthetic brain with illegal code. But once he's tasted the power of living at the speed of thought, able to predict seconds into the future, how will he ever go back? And once he's relaxed his grip on humanity, how far will he let it slip to find justice for his wife? He'll find out eight months later, when he wakes once again in a new body with a new name and no memory of his first restoration. He soon discovers he was somehow involved in a series of mindjackings, his friends and colleagues disappeared or locked-up for crimes they don't remember committing. And the person behind them is still out there. Hunting for him. To find out who he is, Finsbury Gage will have to discover who he became—but will he be able to live with himself when he does? Neuroshyft is the second book in the Lost Time series, a mind-bending sci-fi noir in the spirit of Blade Runner, Altered Carbon, and Neuromancer. \
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\* This book contains material previously published as Lost Time: Part 2 [Headspace], Part 3 [Shyft], and Part 4 [Headspace]. If you're all caught up with the first trilogy (previously parts 1 - 5), jump ahead to the next chapter in Fin's story in the new Lost Time Book 4: Winter Overrun, coming in July.
#4
Winter Overrun
2018
Finsbury Gage is terrified of what's inside him.
He's been dead more than once, and haunted now by the memories of lives he never lived. All he wants to do is hide—from a world he doesn't belong to and the person he doesn't recognize—until he's forced from his self-imposed exile by a threat the police can't handle and a request he can't refuse. A girl has gone missing. Arrived in the big city from the Preserves and immediately disappeared. Her brother's come looking for her, and while a lifetime on a farm hasn't prepared him to navigate the dangerous Reszo underworld, he's not about to let that or anything else stop him from finding his sister. Finsbury will be drawn into a hunt for a killer no one believes in. Someone who doesn't just kill—he steals the thoughts of his victims and makes them part of himself. Finsbury Gage is about to meet Winter, and neither of them will ever be the same. Winter Overrun is the fourth book in the Lost Time series, a mind-bending sci-fi noir in the spirit of Blade Runner, Altered Carbon, and Neuromancer.
#5
Decimation Island
2019
In this game, death is the only escape.
Decimation Island is the hottest sport in the world, a hundred-hour battle royale fight to the death, and Anika "AniK@" Reyes just became its biggest star—except this isn't how she planned it. Seconds away from winning her tenth game in a row, becoming the first person ever to survive a thousand hours and earning herself millions in prizes, she turned her gun on herself and ended her own run. No one knows why, including Anika. But she's determined to find out. And while Finsbury Gage isn't much into sports these days, or doing much more than hiding in his head with the ghost of his dead wife, when an old friend asks him to investigate Anika's try-outs for the New Gladiator fighting league, he can't refuse. His quest to uncover the truth behind Anika's aborted run on Decimation Island will pull him into the high stakes world of professional video gaming, a race to find a stolen shipment of weapons-grade bioSkyns, and the messy complications of an unexpected connection. But Decimation Island protects its secrets well, and to find them Finsbury and Anika will need to work together—if they can keep from killing each other first.
Decimation Island is the fifth book in the blockbuster sci-fi series Lost Time.
Author
Damien Boyes
Author · 4 books